炷 characteristic smell or scent, to burn, measurement word for lit incense sticks, wick, a stick of [something], Mr. Hankey 灶,亠,丶,丿,乀,人,丷,匕,火,主,

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On-yomi [ Toggle rōmaji ]

シュ
SHU

Kun-yomi

とうしん
to　u　shi　n

Glyph elements [ Toggle Font ]

灶

ソウ,かまど,へっつい wood-burning (burning wood) kitchen stove, furnace, euphemism for anal sex

　BURNING ON FIRE FLAMING with CLAY
…or: PERSON TAUT ERECTION EMISSIONS FLAMING with FECES
　

亠

トウ,× emphasis on rod, palming, under control, covered

　THIS IS THE POINT emphasis on ROD, SEGMENT, ARRAY, INDICATES EXTENT
　

丶

チュ,× emphasized part of a glyph

　[emphasis is HERE in a glyph]
　

丿

ヘツ,えい,よう straight up erect, quick jerking movement, stretched taut

　ERECT, FLING
　

乀

フツ,ブチ,ま stretched taut; leashed under control of another; the other side (of something)

　STRETCHED TAUT
　

人

ジン,ニン,ひと,～り,～と person, a man, male adult

　HEAD or ERECT with TAUT, STRETCHED
　

丷

× emit upward

　EMISSIONS, EMIT DROPS
　

匕

ヒ,さじ must remain sitting most of the time, device for scooping fluids, used for piercing or stabbing into

　REPEATED, BOBBING HEAD of PENIS
…or: PREPUBESCENT GIRL merged with PENIS
　

火

カ,ひ,～び,ほ～ heated, in heat, burning, on fire, flaming

　IN PURSUIT of SERVICE PROVIDER, PERSON WHO MUST REMAIN SEATED
…or: EMISSIONS of MALE PERSON
…or: emphasis on TWO ERECTIONS JUXTAPOSED
…or: ERECTION TAUT and EMITTING
…or: ERECTIONS JUXTAPOSED with EMISSIONS
　

主

シュ,ス,シュウ,ぬし,おも,あるじ the owner or master, lord, main, principal; GOD

　emphasis on KING
…or: above the KING
…or: PALM in CONTROL of LAND
　

Meanings of elements

STOVE, FURNACE, FLAMING FECES with emphasis on ROD
…or: BURNING ON FIRE FLAMING and OWNER MASTER LORD, MAIN, PRINCIPAL

The「main flame」used to tell time or to mark the passage of time prior to digital timepieces, such as incense clocks. Incense sticks that each burned at a relatively constant rate could be used for measuring a period or duration of time, with the known length of incense material burned corresponding to a specific amount of time, such as one hour. A burning candle and the remaining amount of oil in a lit lamp could also be used for the same purpose if a previously discerned burn rate was known. This assumes of course that the「main flame」is kept burning, and its use to mark time was why that flame was the main, principal flame of a household.
「Emphasis on a rod with fecal flaming, anal sex」is a FAMILIAR AND UNMISTAKABLE SCENT OR SMELL:「Our Stone Age ancestors must have been very familiar with the smells of excrements. Hunters would have used those smells as other carnivores do, to locate their prey. Dogs joined human communities something like 30,000 years ago. Around 10,000 years ago, the first settled agricultural communities domesticated goats, sheep, cattle, and horses to take advantage of their milk and meat, hair and hides, and their plow-pulling muscle power. Archaeological remains indicate that their dung was used as a building material and fuel for fire, uses that live on today in less industrialized parts of the world, along with fumigation to eliminate insect infestations and even recreational cow 'chip' throwing. Excremental smells must have permeated the life of the early farmers.」
[ https://www.wired.com/story/history-poop-is-really-history-technology/ 2022-08-23 ]

External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: wick of an oil lamp; to burn (incense etc); measure word for lit incense sticks
Japanese EDRDG: candle wick, lamp wick, stick of
Unihan extended: candle wick, lamp wick; stick of incense

Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment (see 籒 for that), representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created. If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system! Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles? Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today. Sex had no shame in ancient China. Why would it? But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?

No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else. This site describes glyph meanings, not people. These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect. The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language? (More...) Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better? Or could they have been worse?

By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs, you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon. This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.